Description: There is no visible selection when clicking in the formula. In version 7.6.7.2 the selected part was highlighted. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Create a formula 2. Click in the formula 3. See command window Actual Results: No selection in the command window Expected Results: Show the part of the formula within the command window. Reproducible: Always User Profile Reset: No Additional Info: Found after update from version 7 to version 24
It can be solved by deselecting "Visuelle Bearbeitung aktivieren" in Math-Options. This Option is not visible when working with the formula editor in LibreOffice Writer.
I confirm (had to have a bit more complex formula than just a > b), but with visual editing not active the UI works a bit differently. You can click the elements in the rendered view to select them. Visual editing is WYSIWYG and I'm not sure what the expectation would be. That the source view tracks whatever you select in the rendered view?
This was one of the primary differences between the experimental (now graduated and default) Visual mode. They use different code paths within the sm module. In the non-visual edit window mode, the edit cursor tracked with the highlighted sm formula node. While in visual edit mode, the edit window and StarMath entry syntax is secondary to the WYSIWYG visual cursor. The nodes are not linked to the formula, and one could argue the command window could even be toggled hidden. We knew issues like this would emerge, and Dev recommendation [1] was to keep the Visual mode graduated--but revert making it default. =-ref-= [1] comments around https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=160226#c7
Let's make it a duplicate. And switch visual editing off by default. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 160226 ***